Questions, many many questions

[Jason Clinton]

darkweb4 at totalmail.com wrote:
 > hey all:
 >
 > um, I guess that i'll just go ahead and make a bother of myself.  I
 > just have a bunch of questions that i have been considering this last
 > week.
 >
 > -  i have a Quad boot system (win98/win2k/mandrake/slackware)...and
 > somewhere around daylights saving time, my mandrake cloack got to be
 > about 6hr. ahead of everything else.  i've tried resetting it, but
 > doing that screws up the windows clock...and the bios clock.  I've
 > also just reset the CMOS clock through the bios settings, but that
 > doesn't seem to fix the Linux clock!  what can i do about this other
 > than just wipin the drive and reloading everything?

this as root may fix it:

# rm /etc/localtime

# ln /usr/share/zoneinfo/America/Chicago /etc/localtime

Somewhere there should also be an option to specify that you are using 
your localtime on your system clock instead of UTC (which is the Unix 
standard)

 > - when i tell mandrake to halt, it halts, and then powers down the
 > system.  when i tell slackware to halt, it halts, and then tells me
 > that i have to manually power down.  what is the advantage to the way
 > that slackware does this?  how can i make slackware behave as
 > mandrake does in this situation, or vice versa?

Mandrake is making an APM Bios call to Power Off where Slackware isn't. 
No benefits other than convenience.